Hello all! @[email protected] is taking a well-deserved break so I’ll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can’t believe it’s almost 2025.
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Hello all! @[email protected] is taking a well-deserved break so I’ll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can’t believe it’s almost 2025.
REMEMBER, EM POC ONLY!!!
I don’t post in this mega often, but I know from lurking around that you’re the coolest people here 😎 The crackers are at it again, and I share a lot of the pessimism I see in this thread rn, but I also wanna say that having been here with this community since its inception, I’ve seen many, many, many struggle sessions (and instigated a few of them myself…
) and this community genuinely has improved and grown incrementally each time in a positive direction. Obviously it sucks that we have to have these learning moments in the first place, and the pace at each change occurs is slower than any of us hope, but I have seen this community continually move in the right direction in a way I haven’t seen any other online community this large do. Maybe it’s cope, but just thought I’d inject some optimism into here… Idk.
the problem is, its not just hexbear. on twitter you have “leftist” accounts joining hand to hand with right wing racists on attacking “identity politics”. the way i like to think of it is that the white western left is similar to the israeli left. should i spend my emotional energy with the matters and discourses of the “israeli left”? id rather not.
I swear, these people’s heads would break, if I told them ethnophobia, Islamophobia, western individualism, and the like are “identity politics”
Then again, someone’s opposition to “identity politics” is more or less a way to virtue-signal cultural reactionary behavior
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again people just don’t get there ass beat enough nowadays. racism would be much less prevalent if we made it socially acceptable to pop someone in the mouth for saying a slur
See, people are still getting beat, just the wrong ones… Im pretty young and I regularly was beaten and called slurs growing up, but I also was in an actual klan town in Appalachia so idk if that’s representative of the US as a whole
yeah like you said there’s so much violence still being perpetrated but like always, they’re always punching down. I grew up in a more “liberal area” of the west coast so thankfully other than slurs and systemic issues the only violence i ever faced was state sponsored from cops, but i know even over here in the eastern parts of the coast states there’s a huge issue of more and more neo nazis flocking to and around places like idaho. The US is and will always be a settler colonialist project, i just wish i could engage with the racists in the uhhh… free market place of ideas.
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There’s a town about 30 minutes over from where I live where the klan is still active and even though it’s not a sundown town anymore…it’s still a sundown town. I don’t even stop there in daylight hours and drive straight through. My sister used to live in the town even further, so she had to drive through there constantly (though she’s white). I remember her telling me “If we have to stop for whatever reason, do not get out of the car.”
A lot of people trapped there in poverty, too. I’ll run into people from there who are white that mention trying to get out because they don’t want to be around klansmen. And of course, the cops in that town all have white sheets in their closet.
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